Highlights•Threats to urban pollinators include urban intensification, climate change,
pesticides and pollution.•Adding honey bee hives could negatively affect wild pollinators in …

Food production depends upon the adequate provision of underpinning ecosystem services,
such as pollination. Paradoxically, conventional farming practices are undermining these …

Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the development trajectories of several
world economies with India being no exception. The country presently is the second worst …

Allotment gardens and community gardens provide important ecosystem services to urban
communities, such as local climate and water regulation, as well as habitat provision for …

Many studies examine the correlation between the use of resources such as water, energy
and land, and the production of food. These nexus studies focus predominantly on large …

Green infrastructure (GI) mitigates the negative effects of urbanization and provides
hydrological and bioecological benefits. However, these benefits are highly scale …

Vegetation barriers along roads can mitigate the effects of air pollution from traffic. Here, we
measure a range of air pollutants in front and behind a hedge during the dormancy, greenup …

Names: Douglas, Ian, 1936–editor.| Routledge (Firm) Title: The Routledge handbook of
urban ecology/edited by Ian Douglas, Pippin Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck …

1 The benefits and opportunities achievable using Nature-based Solutions (NBS) to address
global and societal challenges have never been more relevant, important or urgently …